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  • Haigazian: Dr. Arda Jebejian on "Linguistic Challenges of Diaspora"

    PRESS RELEASE
    From: Mira Yardemian
    Public Relations Director
    Haigazian University
    Mexique Street, Kantari, Beirut
    P.O.Box. 11-1748
    Riad El Solh 1107 2090
    Tel: 01-353010/1/2
    01-349230/1



    Dr. Arda Jebejian on "Linguistic Challenges of the Armenian Diaspora in
    Lebanon"


    Beirut, May 6, 2008- On April 30, 2008, Dr. Arda Jebejian, current
    lecturer in the Humanities Department at the University of Nicosia,
    Cyprus, delivered a lecture entitled "Challenges of the Armenian
    Diaspora in Lebanon: Implications for a Resolution of a Crime Still
    Denied" at the Cultural Hour in the Haigazian University Auditorium.

    Dr. Jebejian was introduced to the audience by Dr. Arda Ekmekji, Dean of
    the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who in her opening word tackled the
    issue of the Armenian Genocide, pointing out to the fact that it is the
    first genocide of the 20th century.

    Jebejian began her lecture by explaining the role of language in
    societies, as "the means of socialization into one's culture, the
    vehicle for transmitting the cultural heritage of the past, reshaping
    it, and passing it on to the next generations."

    Jebejian also explained the implications of the Armenian language on
    Armenians who live in Diaspora communities. "They have been subjected to
    shifts and fluctuations of language ideologies, ranges of identities,
    sociopolitical and socioeconomic trends, and more recently to
    globalization, consumerism, explosion of media technologies, and the
    post-colonial and post-communist predicament of belongingness", Jebejian
    noted.

    Jebejian concluded her lecture by considering that pride in ethnic
    identity, communal belongingness, and transmission of the Armenian
    language and history, are crucial in hastening the just conclusion of an
    internationally unresolved national tragedy.
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